Music APIs let you add music capabilities without building from scratch. Every entry below is profiled with trust signals — pricing model, authentication requirements, CORS support, rate limits, and live uptime checks — so you can compare options and pick production-safe choices instead of guessing from a link list.
| API | Pricing | Auth | CORS | Health | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7digital Api of Music store 7digital | Freemium | OAuth | No | Profile | |
| AI Mastering Automated Music Mastering | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Audiomack Api of the streaming music hub Audiomack | Free | OAuth | No | Profile | |
| Bandcamp API of Music store Bandcamp | Free | OAuth | No | Profile | |
| Bandsintown Music Events | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Bandsintown API Bandsintown API: artist tour dates, event listings, venue data, ticket availability, and concert recommendations. | Free | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| Cloud-RF API Use this JSON API to build and test radio links for any radio, anywhere. Authenticate with your API2.0 key in the request header as key | Free | Unknown | Yes | Profile | |
| Deezer Music | Freemium | OAuth | No | Profile | |
| Discogs Music | Free | OAuth | No | Profile | |
| Freesound Music Samples | Free | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| Gaana API to retrieve song information from Gaana | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Genius Crowdsourced lyrics and music knowledge | Free | OAuth | No | Profile | |
| Genrenator Music genre generator | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Jamendo Music | Free | OAuth | No | Profile | |
| JioSaavn API to retrieve song information, album meta data and many more from JioSaavn | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| KKBOX Get music libraries, playlists, charts, and perform out of KKBOX's platform | Freemium | OAuth | No | Profile | |
| LRCLIB Crowdsourced lyrics | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| LastFm Music | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Lyrics.ovh API Simple API to retrieve the lyrics of a song | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Profile | |
| Mixcloud Music | Free | OAuth | No | Profile | |
| Mubert AI Music API Integrate AI music into your app, game or service | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| MusicBrainz Music | Free | No | Unknown | Profile | |
| MusicBrainz API MusicBrainz API for music metadata: artist info, release details, recordings, tags, and relationships from open music encyclopedia. | Free | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| Musixmatch Music | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| NPR Listening Service API Audio recommendations tailored to a user's preferences | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Profile | |
| Napster Music | Freemium | API Key | Unknown | Profile | |
| Openwhyd Download curated playlists of streaming tracks (YouTube, SoundCloud, etc...) | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| Phishin A web-based archive of legal live audio recordings of the improvisational rock band Phish | Free | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| Radio & Music Services API We encapsulate Radio & Music business logic for iPlayer Radio and BBC Music products on all platforms. We add value by reliably providing the right blend of metadata needed by clients. | Paid | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| Radio Browser List of internet radio stations | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Songkick Music Events | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Songlink / Odesli Get all the services on which a song is available | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Songsterr API Provides guitar, bass and drums tabs and chords | Free | Unknown | Unknown | Profile | |
| SoundCloud With SoundCloud API you can build applications that will give more power to control your content | Free | OAuth | No | Profile | |
| Spotify View Spotify music catalog, manage users' libraries, get recommendations and more | Freemium | OAuth | No | Profile | |
| Spotify Web API You can use Spotify's Web API to discover music and podcasts, manage your Spotify library, control audio playback, and much more. Browse our available Web API endpoints using the sidebar at left, or via the navigation ba | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Profile | |
| Spotify Web API with fixes and improvements from sonallux API You can use Spotify's Web API to discover music and podcasts, manage your Spotify library, control audio playback, and much more. Browse our available Web API endpoints using the sidebar at left, or via the navigation ba | Unknown | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| Sunor API AI music generation API via Suno, with pay-as-you-go credits | Paid | API Key | Unknown | Profile | |
| TasteDive Similar artist API (also works for movies and TV shows) | Free | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| TheAudioDB Music | Free | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| Vagalume Crowdsourced lyrics and music knowledge | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| iTunes Search API Software products | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Profile |
Start with pricing and auth: free tiers and no-auth APIs are fastest to prototype with. Then check CORS if your app calls the API from the browser, and health before you commit — a great API that's been down for a week will block your launch. Each profile below shows all of these signals plus rate limits where documented.